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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   It's up to $147. Was $140 just a few minutes ago. Any bets on whether it hits $200 today?
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   Bitcoin for Beginners(fee.org)

   5 points by vijayboyapati 14y ago|0 comments
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   As Moldbug wrote: "In any economy, there exists no less than one commodity or security of inelastic volume which is overvalued due to reservation demand. Ie: one scarce good which is money." Bitcoin's increasing price is a sign that it's fu
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   "The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift, in March 1933. He had changed expectations, and begun an administration that would use money as a tool to bring widespread prosperity -- rather than serv
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   Can someone explain to me why no one is doing a direct, pixel for pixel clone of Google Reader? I mean, the thing is popular enough that any startup would die for its traffic. Not to mention its users absolutely love it. As Paul Bucheit sai
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   Can someone explain to me why no one is doing a direct, pixel for pixel clone of Google Reader? I mean, the thing is popular enough that any startup would die for its traffic. Not to mention its users absolutely love it. As Paul Bucheit sai
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   It's unfair for Google to claim usage has been decreasing since it broke the social aspect of Greader (which was the part I loved the most) which I think is a major factor in declining usage. I definitely saw less content that my friends on
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   This is terrible. Costco can get away with a higher minimum wage because they sell at a higher end. All this is doing is forcing Walmart to stop competing at the lower end of the spectrum of goods. The only people harmed by that are the poo
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   by vijayboyapati 14y ago

   http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.dk/2011/04/on-monet... Finally, we examine a new contender - the mysterious and awesome Bitcoin. I'll be frank with you, dear reader. When I came up with the MoMT, my first thought was: how can I,
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    Honest and funny. So rare in the corporate world.
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    This reminds me of the great article by Mencius Moldbug on monetary restandardization: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-mone... "If Bitcoin becomes the new global monetary system, one bitcoin purchased today (for 90
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    AMA on why patents and copyright should be abolished(reddit.com)

    7 points by vijayboyapati 14y ago|0 comments
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    Yet another zipfian distribution in computer science. Hoocuddanowed
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    Google ought to pause its work on driver-less cars and magic glasses while it learns how to run a 1990's-style online retail store. The Google Play Store experience is shockingly poor.
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    Same here. I can get it in my cart, but can't checkout. It gives me an error, then it empties my cart. Apple must be having a good laugh at this
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    I like Kinsella's book on this subject which has much deeper critique of the harm caused by intellectual "property", which is broader than the damage done by software patents alone: http://mises.org/books/against.pdf
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    by vijayboyapati 14y ago

    This will be a huge factor in increasing demand for bitcoin if it comes through. The biggest problem with bitcoin now is that it's not widely accepted for payment (i.e., it's not yet a medium of exchange). A debit/credit card is a big step